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Team and communication are not always easy, especially not team size and it’s communication. A bigger team makes the communication more complex. The overhead of communication between developers, designers and managers in a team can be overwhelming.

For each person you add to a team, there will be more communication routes, making it all more difficult for your team.

How many should you be in a team?

My simple answer to that is; not too many. Some people say three, some draw the line at 15 people in a team.

Founder and CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos has his own two-pizza team rule. My experience says it’s getting complicated above a size of five.

Lots of people do not solve the problems faster, avoid throwing more people at problems.

The days you get a sneaking feeling that you can’t, you’re too old, too young, it’s too late or someone tells you that you can’t.

In those moments you can watch this video. I love it, it’s so inspiring.

It is possible. Start doing things “you can’t”. It is extremely rewarding. You enriches your soul, your life and gain experience that will take you into situations and opportunities you never knew existed.

I have always taken big decisions much based on my gut feeling and personal experience. I’m not much to ask others for advice or tips, which is probably both good and bad.

If you get an advice, try to evaluate the advice you are given. Not all advice is equally as good or bad for everyone.

Trust your gut.

You can do more than you think, you just had to have courage. There is no perfect timing for big or drastic decisions. You just have to take the plunge and decide to do it.

You can do more than you think and it’s never too late.

Far too many people go around and think too much about what others will think, or are afraid to be outside the norm of what is normal in their age, in their situation. Says who? Life is too short to do things you don’t enjoy, or do things just because others happens to do the same. You are you. Do what you like doing.

Take the plunge, do things you don’t dare. It’s refreshing! You will feel more alive than ever. You can! You want to, you dare to.

Note to self. Today I have been tired all day, after a long day in town I came home tired, very tired, but had nevertheless decided to go for a run. So I put on my running shoes and went for a run and now, afterward, it feels really good and I am more alert.

So when you are tired, run. Get out and breathe fresh air. Go for a walk, move your body.

Run, walk, breathe, get outside. It’s healthy, it will help you be more creative and will help you be more productive. You will have more energy afterward if you run, walk or in some way move your body outdoors. Just do.

This month, September 12, a patent that helped Amazon take over online commerce will expire. Amazon have had their 1-Click patent for 20 years but this year it expires. This will change e-commerce forever.

Will be really interesting to see what happens with one-click payments online.

I have been running companies for quite a few years now but have never used the word entrepreneur to describe myself. Never thought it suited me, or rather, not associated myself with others who described themselves as entrepreneurs.

It is a somewhat distorted concept. At the same time, I have not found another good descriptive term that fits.

The word entrepreneur appeared in a French dictionary already in the 1400s and means to implement. A word I can really associate with and does not feel so banal.

That’s how I learned everything I can after my first company registration.

Work and learn driven by interest, be curious, test, execute and learn from what you do along the way.

Andy Boyle has written an inspiring blog post about what he learned from not drinking alcohol for two years. This time Andy writes about how his articles have become viral twice, on both ends of the emotional spectrum – hate and love.

Here’s what you don’t know about going viral: Afterwards, you’re the same guy. I still have a regular job. I still have plenty of problems. I still had to clean up after my cat pooped in the tub last night.

But going viral can inspire you to work on yourself IRL, as it did for me especially the first time around.

Exciting things are happening! After 7 years, I will no longer run my own business, Push Forward AB becomes a part of Infunnel.

I comment on the merger of the companies in our press release:

Our goal has always been to deliver high quality web solutions that drive our customers sales. Now we get even more opportunities to get there. Infunnel have the right mindset, and together we will deliver the best solutions in the industry, both from a technical and business perspective.

What have Dilbert and Charlie Chaplin in common in terms of company culture and developers? Chad Dickerson, former CTO, now CEO at Etsy gives a talk about “Developer Happiness” and talks about how Etsy managed to create a prosperous and good company culture where development has a central role.

This week I have slowed down the work pace which has given me more time to think and reflect. New ideas pop up and I’ve taken a lot of notes.

I have always had a desire to create and produce but it’s nice to look back on the time elapsed. Get perspective on things I’ve done and think about what you could do differently, what has been bad and what has been done well.

I will try to create time to think and reflect every week for a while and see what it brings.

Give myself time to reflect on things every other day, or once a week, and just write down my thoughts. Carve out more time to think.